Launching a Web Page

(http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/WebLaunch.html)

To make a personal home page, you should:

Create a text-only file with HTML
(HyperText
Mark-up Language) tags interpretable by Netscape.
Use any word processor, saving your file as Text Only, or use an
HTML editor such as PageSpinner (Mac), HTMLed (Windows), or Claris
Home Page (both). See below for a sample
file, including its minimal HTML tags.

Feel free to include tags that make links to other web
pages.
Links use "anchors" in this form:
<a href="exact_file_location_">[some linking words or
image]</a>, e.g.,
<a
href="http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/WebLaunch.html">Launching
a Web Page</a>

For ease of website maintenance, whenever possible, use
relative rather than absolute addresses.
Relative to location of this document: <img src="alice.GIF">
or <img src="pics/alice.GIF">
Relative to this document's server: <img
src="/~lsarth/pics/alice.GIF">
Absolute: <img
src="http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/pics/alice.GIF">

Test your evolving file using Netscape's File|Open File...
command.

Save your first HTML file as index.html.

Upload your file to a web
server's file storage area.
At U-M, index.html should be stored in
/afs/umich.edu/user/<first letter of your
uniqname>/<second letter of your uniqname>/<your
uniqname>/Public/html/.
On the web, that page can be accessed at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~<your uniqname>. The tilde
(~) is really code that tells the web server to look for a file
called index.html in an html folder inside a Public folder in the
storage area of the person whose uniqname follows the tilde. If
instead you named your file fred, you would still put it in your
Public/html folder but it would be found directly by a Netscape
user only by accessing http://www-personal.umich.edu/~<your
uniqname>/fred.

To get more step-by-step instructions for putting up your own home
page at U-M, read
how-to-homepage.

To evolve your own web design, either go out on the web, find
sites you like, and view (or even copy and adapt) the source code
behind them, or ask someone nice.

Have fun!

HTMLSample.html
Every HTML file should contain certain standard HTML tags. The
required elements are the <html>, <head>, <title>,
and <body> tags (and their corresponding end tags). Each file
consists of head and body text. The head contains at least the title,
and the body contains the actual text that is made up of paragraphs,
lists, and other elements. The required elements are included in this
sample file:

<html>
<head>
<title>A Simple Sample HTML File</title>
</head>
<body>
<H1>HTML is Easy To Learn</H1>
<p>Welcome to the word of HTML. This is the first paragraph.
While it is short, it is still a paragraph.
<p>Here is a second pargraph. Notice that a line was skipped
before this paragraph. The paragraph tag causes that. To go to a new
line without skipping a space
<br>use the break tag.
<br>
<img src="alice.GIF">
<br>The picture above was called by using the image source
tag.
<br>Welcome to the World Wide Wonderland!
</body>
</html>